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French Curator Unearths Rare Mozart Manuscript
- Musicians will perform music for flute and harp by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the first time on Sunday at the National Library, following a "major discovery" of a manuscript from his 1778 Paris stay.
- While reviewing anonymous manuscripts, National Library curator Francois-Pierre Goy stumbled upon the 44-page notebook containing exercises Mozart gave to Marie-Louise-Philippine de Bonnieres de Guines from 1778.
- Armin Brinzing, director of the Austria-based Mozarteum Foundation, authenticated the document in April. Confiscated from the Duke of Guines' home during the 1794 French Revolution, the manuscript contains seven pieces for flute and harp.
- BnF president Gilles Pecout said the sheets document Mozart's final Paris stay, providing insight into his teaching. For flautists and harpists who have "very little repertoire" available to them, the discovery offers rare performance opportunities.
- Discoveries like this "for such a famous composer are almost unheard of," said Mathias Auclair, director of the BnF's music department. In 2012, an Austrian attic yielded a Mozart piano piece composed when he was 11, underscoring such finds' rarity.
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This autograph book with seven pieces for harp and flute was found by a curator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). It contains a total of a dozen compositions.
·France
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An unassuming notebook turns out to be a decades-old find: A music notebook belonging to Mozart has been discovered in France's National Library - a valuable insight into his work as a piano teacher.
·Hamburg, Germany
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The works will be played for the public.
An exceptional discovery has been made in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris: a notebook containing 44 pages of handwritten music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was intended as teaching material for a French noblewoman who played the harp.
·Antwerp, Belgium
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